The village of Manlius’ outgoing parks and recreation director publicly detailed her reasons for filing a "workplace violence" charge against Manlius Mayor Mark-Paul Serafin at Tuesday night’s village board meeting.

Kristin Hansen, who has resigned from her position to take a job in Texas, read a statement in which she alleged Serafin created a hostile work environment over the past two years by repeatedly accusing her of disloyalty, verbally assaulting her, and intimidating her in a variety of ways.

“I’m scared of you,’’ she told Serafin later in the meeting. “I had security install a panic button in my office because of you. It’s insane.”

Hansen’s workplace violence claim was filed in mid-October with the village, and the village board’s personnel committee members read a report in open session saying they found the complaint to be credible.

Trustee Natalie Miner said there is a second workplace violence complaint against Serafin by another employee, but wouldn’t provide details at this time.

The workplace violence complaints include several incidents of “verbal assault;” there are no accusations of physical violence.

Serafin read a statement in open session after Hansen made her allegations public. He said he is ignoring the entire matter because it was handled by trustee Miner in violation of village law. “It was a kangaroo court on a witch hunt,’’ he said.

He said the complaint is both illegal and biased and said while Hansen has done an outstanding job as a department head, “she has been a difficult employee.”

Serafin said he asked Hansen if their disagreements led to her resignation, but she told him it was because of a favorable job offer.“This devious and duplicitous behavior does not reflect well on either her truthfulness or her intentions in filing the complaint,’’ he said.

He also blamed “inappropriate behavior” on Trustee Janice Abdo-Rott’s part as being central to the disagreement.

After reading his statement, the board room erupted in anger, with audience members screaming at Serafin for being disrespectful and “horrible” to Hansen. Serafin repeatedly asked the board to go into executive session to further discuss the topic, but no one moved to do so.

Serafin said he’s been “open and willing to sit and talk about this” but Miner said he hasn’t done so.

Hansen said Serafin has repeatedly accused her of disloyalty. Hansen said Serafin didn’t want her to talk to the people he didn’t get along with. At meetings, he would direct her not to sit next to two trustees he didn’t get along with, and on one occasion he told her not to speak to the trustees, Hansen said.

Hansen said he also asked her not to rehire two high school students during the summer because they were children of people he didn’t like.

“The language he uses in the office is unprofessional,’’ she said. “I have continued to feel intimidated by him, and felt my job was at risk if I didn’t comply with what he wanted.”

During the meeting, Trustee Abdo-Rott said Serafin has been unhappy with her ever since she didn’t invite him to a party at her home. “You don’t like me, and you treat me like crap,’’ she said to Serafin.

Trustee Miner said what happens next is up to the village board. The board does not have the power to remove the mayor from office, she said. Instead, the board has other options, such as asking for a public reprimand or censure.

During the meeting, Manlius Fire Chief Paul Whorrall stood up and said he is going to run for mayor in the March 2013 election.